They believed that one can terminate life whenever he or she wants to. .
Euthanasia is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as " gentle and easy death". This term is usually used in cases on incurable and painful disease. For people in support of euthanasia, dying should be the natural dignified end of life, but is too often a painful, prolonged, and distressing process. The fact of dying does not worry the people, but it is the fear of the manner of dying, or being kept alive is such a pitiful manner that death is in infinitely preferable. For example, victims of cancer often have to suffer severe and continuous distress. Pain can be reduced by the repeated use of narcotics and sedative drugs but often at the cost of nausea, constipation deterioration of the personality, and other distressing side effects. In addition to pain, victims of cancer may have to suffer the mental misery associated with the presence of a misery associated with the presence of a incontinence and the utter frustration that makes each day and night a death in life. Diseases of the nervous system all too often lead to crippling paralysis or inability to walk, to severe headaches to blindness and to the misery of incontinence and bedsores. A patient with a stroke may be conscious but helpless. .
Pro Euthanasia advocates argue that when alternatives are death with dignity, or death accompanied by prolonged pain and distress, common sense, support the demand for euthanasia. A person who continually needs another person to wipe his nose, stop his tongue from hanging out or change his sheets, may find it more dignified to ask for death. Not everyone wants to spend his or her last few weeks, months, or years in an institution suffering from pain and agony, no matter treated how well. .
For advocates against euthanasia, the word euthanasia means "mercy killing", for the purpose of putting an end to extreme suffering, or terminating abnormal babies, the mentally ill or the incurable sick from the prolongation, perhaps for many years of miserable life, which could impose too heavy a burden on their families or on society.
